Ansible: A Complete Course with Step-by-Step Demo and Labs (Udemy.com)

A well structured course for beginners in Ansible and i'm pleased that i'm a master of it after completing the course successfully along with Hands on experience.

I really liked this course, it's very well thought out from start to finish, starting with basics then moving gradually to more advance topics.

Really happy with this course. Concise lectures, good explanations, no missing steps, am able to follow along per instructions and not get stuck on something that wasn't explained properly.

Very excellent course and instructor skill I had great difficulty following years ago but now that I have picked up terraform skill this has become very clear

Thank you. The course is useful, however it seems a bit outdated. Below are the issues I faced when trying to run provided examples. Getting Installed Vagrantfile provided in Resources does not match the one, displayed in the course (4 host in Vagrantfile vs 6 on the screen). Vagrantfile uses Centos7 and Ubuntu 14.04. Which is a bit outdated for 2024. === Playbook example use deprecated syntax and sometimes do not work. "Create user" example fails: An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: TypeError: getpwnam() argument must be str, not None fatal: [192.168.56.6]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Shared connection to 192.168.56.6 closed.\r ", "module_stdout": "Traceback (most recent call last):\r File \"/home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1714739233.7495408-7468-45776557037694/AnsiballZ_user.py\", line 102, in \r _ansiballz_main()\r File \"/home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1714739233.7495408-7468-45776557037694/AnsiballZ_user.py\", line 94, in _ansiballz_main\r invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\r File \"/home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1714739233.7495408-7468-45776557037694/AnsiballZ_user.py\", line 40, in invoke_module\r runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible.modules.user', init_globals=None, run_name='__main__', alter_sys=True)\r File \"/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py\", line 224, in run_module\r return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec)\r File \"/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py\", line 96, in _run_module_code\r _run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals,\r File \"/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py\", line 86, in _run_code\r exec(code, run_globals)\r File \"/tmp/ansible_user_payload__8pqq6i5/ansible_user_payload.zip/ansible/modules/user.py\", line 3103, in \r File \"/tmp/ansible_user_payload__8pqq6i5/ansible_user_payload.zip/ansible/modules/user.py\", line 3014, in main\r File \"/tmp/ansible_user_payload__8pqq6i5/ansible_user_payload.zip/ansible/modules/user.py\", line 973, in user_exists\r TypeError: getpwnam() argument must be str, not None\r ", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE See stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1} An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: TypeError: getpwnam() argument must be str, not None === "Apt" example executed with warning: [DEPRECATION WARNING]: Invoking "apt" only once while using a loop via squash_actions is deprecated. Instead of using a loop to supply multiple items and specifying `name: "{{item}}"`, please use `name: ['vim', 'git', 'nano', 'zip', 'unzip', 'gzip', 'bzip2', 'rsync']` and remove the loop. This feature will be removed from ansible-base in version 2.11. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg. === "zip" example fails with error ERROR! conflicting action statements: archive, format The error appears to be in '/home/vagrant/ansible/basic.yaml': line 5, column 5, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be: tasks: - name: zip ^ here === 13. Managing Ansible Configuration Files Video contains typo: 2. /.ansible.cfg should be 2. ./ansible.cfg

the course is good, I wish they could provide a lab environment to practice. I don't have virtual box installed on my laptop. Does udemy provides the lab servers?

One of the best online course. A lot of information and practice material in a such condensed format. The course is appreciate your time and energy by delivering you exactly what you need to start working with Ansible.

This program is excellent. By running commands in the lab environment, you can discover new things. Overly high worth. I'm grateful. It has a gorgeous structure.

Every section was greatly explained and the labs were really helpful; even as a total beginner I feel I have progressed a lot with this short course.

It was a great short course that help me a lot to understand the very basics. Also they need to update the subtitles because there are a lot of auto subtitles generated badly